The passion of Tiger Woods : an anthropologist reports on golf, race, and celebrity scandal /

This book examines the career of Tiger Woods, from child star to global sports celebrity. Starn shows that while the scandal following the revelation of Tiger's infidelities was like many similar media-generated scandals of recent years, by examining the way Woods was seen afterwards, we can le...

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Main Author: Starn, Orin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.
Series:A John Hope Franklin Center Book
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